Cloud Lead

Our Architecture Services team provides Architectural services that clients, sales and other internal business units can consume. The Architecture Services team is responsible for creating, maintaining, and overseeing the integrity of end-to-end technology designs and solutions ensuring they address specific opportunity and project business requirements. The work within the team predominantly consists of client-facing pre-sales and project-related activity.

With growth in our Architecture Services team, we are now seeking a Cloud Lead to take on a key role in our Melbourne team. 

Primary Accountabilities

The successful candidate will bring a strong blend of hands‑on technical capability and architectural leadership. While the role contributes to design and governance activities, the majority of time will be spent actively building, delivering, and improving solutions within a complex, multi-team environment.

A key responsibility will be designing, implementing, and optimising automation, delivery pipelines, and cloud-native solutions using modern tooling and engineering practices. The candidate will work closely with product teams to troubleshoot issues, enhance platform reliability, and remove barriers to efficient delivery.

Alongside this delivery focus, the role will contribute to architectural direction by participating in design reviews, engaging with the organisation’s design authority, and ensuring solutions align to agreed patterns and standards. The candidate will help shape and maintain roadmaps that balance near-term delivery needs with longer-term evolution of the technical environment.

The role will also support continuous improvement across people, process, and technology. This includes identifying opportunities to uplift engineering practices, streamline operational workflows, and promote effective cross-team collaboration to ensure sustainable and scalable ways of working.

The environment leverages a variety of tools, including:

• GitHub / AWS CodeCommit
• CloudFormation / Terraform / Ansible
• AWS CodePipeline / Jenkins / GitHub Actions
• AWS CloudWatch

The ideal candidate will demonstrate practical, hands-on experience using these tools in complex delivery environments; enabling high-quality code deployment, automation, observability, and governance across multiple teams.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in large scale application and server workload transitioning and transformation with a proven track record in delivering serverless architecture and infrastructure as a code.

• ITIL understanding and working within framework.
• SDLC Framework / methodology.
• Architectural frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Operating within a managed environment where service levels need to be maintained and adhered to.
• Building and managing highly available services / applications and managing a high level of resilience across the platform.
• Ability to engage at the executive level to present and discuss, ability to influence and understand how to translate complex technical architecture into business requirements and outcomes.
• A deep understanding of security principles is essential in this environment. Demonstrated expertise in security concepts, architectural best practices, relevant frameworks, and regulatory compliance requirements to ensure robust protection of systems and data.

Our Company

NEC is a leading global software and solutions technology business. Over the last 50+ years of business here in Australia, NEC has helped future-proof organisations in a dynamic and fast changing business environment, driving growth and efficiencies through smart technology solutions, manage risk, solve workforce issues and help businesses improve their customer and employee experience. Working with government agencies and private enterprise, NEC streamlines and simplifies the complex technology requirements, working in areas including health, transport, construction, manufacturing, emergency services, corrections and law enforcement and many more.

At NEC, we offer an outstanding working environment and the opportunity to be part of a high performance team. We place great emphasis on our staff satisfaction and have a fantastic corporate culture and a highly responsive management team.

Please apply now!

NEC is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.